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December 15, 2004

Dizzee Rascal

Boy in Da Corner
September 8, 2004

Franz Win the Mercury

Scottish quartet take home U.K. music prize
February 25, 2004

ATW New Faces: Dizzee Rascal

U.K. rapper imports his hip-hop "grime"
January 20, 2004

New CDs: Dizzee, Ani

Reviews of "Boy in Da Corner," "Educated Guess" and more

Maths + English

Three albums into his career, London rapper Dizzee Rascal still sounds like a thug from a parallel universe: Maths and English is long on dark, dense electro beats and frazzled techno, plus frantic-but-ballsy rhymes that even Brits might have trouble parsing. It's nothing particularly new...

2007 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

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When 19-year-old Londoner Dizzee Rascal debuted in 2004 with the excellently unorthodox Boy in da Corner, he seemed like a gangsta from another planet, with a high, wound-up, desperate voice that sometimes sounds like Eazy-E, Shabba Ranks, and Gary Numan, all stuck inside the same body. Boy in da Corner presents a phantasmagoric vision of the future of hip-hop and techno, as Dizzee stays clear of...

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